Gentlemen, this is one splendid truck. If you haven't applied the rest of the bumper markings yet, perhaps the most authentic marks for a truck kept this meticulous and buffed would be the Berlin Brigade. They kept all of their stuff in this kind of shape.

Well done!

Gentlemen, thank you for the education you just gave me in three pages I'll be reading repeatedly now. What a great site, and what a great group of folks you are.

Great answers, and a wide range of answers--thank you all for weighing in on this issue. So many of you mention swapping out the transmission as well....is that really necessary?

Man, I thought there was more to that story. Great stuff, thanks for those details!

Interesting answers! Juan, since you log so many miles with your vehicle, did you compile a list of all the engineers that could conceivably work? Do you remember what your other top choices were before you made your final selection?

Good answers gentlemen, and fast ones--thanks much. Outstanding website on your rebuilding works, MSR. I just spent twenty minutes daydreaming over there....

Has anyone reading this tried a Ford motor in an M37? How about a Unimog engine?

Greetings all, I'm in awe of your vehicles, and hope to get one of my own, one of these days. I realize my question violates the intent of restoration, but if each of you HAD TO replace the engine with a modern, off-the-shelf engine that given the proper mounts fit under the M37 hood, which engine w...